Your most-wanted candidates for Fox's Studio Classics in 2004? (1 Viewer)

[Stas T]

Two For the Road

 

[Justin_S]

The Innocents

 

[Jeff Koch]

The CinemaScope short titled "THE MIRACLE OF STEREOPHONIC SOUND." (Technicolor)

This short demonstrated the then newly developed four track magnetic stereo process with race cars, trains zooming by, football crowds roaring, bands playing and Fox thunder storm sound effects in glorious four track surround. The real highlight of the production was the great Alfred Newman rehearsing the Twentieth Century Fox Studio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden: Dance of the Tumblers. First he had the string section play, then woodwinds and horns, and finally low brass and percussion ending with a cymbal crash. The orchestra then played the entire piece together demonstrating that not only was this the best studio orchestra in the world but also how effective music sounded in four track magnetic stereo.

There are also product reels produced for theater exhibitors with Zanuck demonstrating CinemaScope 55 and the new and improved CinemaScope lenses with dailies from BROKEN LANCE and THE EGYPTIAN, both prime candidates for dvd.

Jeff

 

[Brook K]

Agree with Jon, Bigger Than Life, Pickup On South Street, Forty Guns, House Of Bamboo, Run Of The Arrow, City Girl, Unfaithfully Yours, and My Darling Clementine.

 

[SteveP]

THE KING AND I DVD, while not anamorphic, is, I believe, off the master done for the 1996 Deluxe Laser Disc, which WAS mastered from the original CinemaScope 55 elements. (I recall reading somewhere Robert Harris being quoted that damage was done to the negative in the process of making the video master, preventing any 70MM prints from ever being made from it again, unfortunately.}

While I have never heard of the particuar Alfred Newman Stereophonic Sound Short Subject mentioned above, his "Street Scene" Concert Prologue to HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE is one of the major delights of the early stereo era and I would be thrilled to see other such material from Mr. Newman and the Fox orchestra.

While not a classic in the "good taste" sense of the word, THE BEST OF EVERYTHING is a favorite of mine, not the least for Mr. Newmans' final score under his Fox contract and Johnnie Mathis crooning the over-ripe title song during the opening credits (filled with 'Scope stock shots lifted from the opening of HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE).

 

[Thomas T]

I want all of Fox's CinemaScope films from the 1950's.

King Of The Khyber Rifles
Adventures Of Hajji Baba
Black Widow
Broken Lance
Desiree
The Egyptian
Garden Of Evil
Hell And High Water
Night People
Prince Valiant
Three Coins In The Fountain
Woman's World
Daddy Long Legs
Deep Blue Sea
Girl In The Red Velvet Swing
Good Morning Miss Dove
House Of Bamboo
How To Be Very Very Popular
Left Hand Of God
Magnificent Matador
Man Called Peter
Prince Of Players
The Racers
Rains Of Ranchipur will do for starters.

 

[Jon Robertson]

How could I have forgotten the fabulous Leave Her To Heaven? I demand to see that one in January 2004!

 

[Ken New]

And "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines".

 

[Douglas R]

I though the Fox Studio Classics were all supposed to be Oscar winners (or Golden Globe winners in the case of Day the Earth Stood Still). Which rules out many of the titles mentioned here.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Off the top of my head, I know of at least two Fox Studio Classics releases that are not Oscar or Golden Globe winners.

 

[Joe Caps]

THE FOX FILMS I WOULD KILL FOR ON DVD
The Egyptian
Prince of Foxes - resotred picture and sound. This film is often run on AMC and Fox movies in a truly terrible master.
Untamed- Susan Hayward, Tyrone Power.
Garden of Evil - the Garden of Evil video masters have an odd history. When the letterbox master was done (shown on Fox Movies) Fox could not find the original stereo track and so rechanneled the sound from mono. Fox later found the true stereo track and added it to a new pan and scan master - also shown on Fox Movies. Fox needs to add this to their letterbox master. This year makes the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Cinemascope. Fox should do a special collection from the early years of scope and release all thos early features from 54 and 55 - Rains of Ranchipur, Broken Lance, Soldier of fortune, King of the Khyber Rifles, Man Called Peter, Prince of Players, etc.

I'm glad that Fox is doing Call Me Madma - a marvelous musical. Other Fox musicals I wouldlike
State Fair - 1962 remake
The Best Things in Life are Free
April Love -
all the Alice Fayes
Betty Grable - Moon Over Miami, etc.
Where Do We Go From Here

 

[David Lambert]

The Three Faces of Eve

Formerly released on VHS as a Studio Classic, and such a great film.



(and if Sybil hit at the same time, I wouldn't hardly complain...)

 

[george kaplan]

I can never keep straight what studio has the rights to what, but based on what others have posted here, I'd definitely buy the following:

Lifeboat
My Darling Clementine (there's a rumor this is coming in April)
I Was a Male War Bride
Cheaper by the Dozen
Belles on their Toes
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

 

[David Von Pein]

 

[Jim_K]

Great news that The Black Swan will be in the 04 line-up.

Other obvious choices I'd like to see next year:

My Darling Clementine

The Innocents

Broken Lance

Drums Along The Mohawk

Unfaithfully Yours

Broken Arrow (1950)

The Gunfighter

One Million Years B.C.

 

[SteveGon]

I'll put in a vote for Lifeboat, The Gunfighter, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I expect some of these requests might be coming out later this year or during the first couple of quarters of 2004.





Crawdaddy

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

What exactly is the cut-off date after which a film won't be considered a Fox classic? 1965? 1970?

 

[Greg_M]

Bill,

FOX could also record Rita Moreno for "The King and I" She still appears at area screenings to discuss her films. (As does Marni Nixon)

And Mitz Gaynor, John Kerr and members of the tech crew are still around to do "South Pacific" which could be interesting.


I second "Those Maginifcent Men in Their Flying Machines" Fox had released a letterbox Special Edition on Laserdisc, though I never bought it. The film is in Todd-AO and FOX does excellent 1960's Todd-AO transfers "Cleopatra" "Hello Dolly" "Patton"

 

[MatthewA]

Hate to break it to ya, but Oklahoma and South Pacific weren't actually made by Fox. They just came into the video rights in the mid-1980s via Samuel Goldwyn Co. So why would Fox claim to have made them by putting them under this line? I like the idea of a 2-disc Oklahoma with both the Todd-AO and Cinemascope versions. And SP (which was only shot once, in 65mm), as we've discussed, needs to be restored to its original length. Ask Joe Caps.

King and I and Carousel may get remastered, they should be, but whether they'd be under the "studio classics" line is unknown to me, seeing how R&H musicals have their own de facto line. The King and I LD has loads of supplements not on the DVD.

Fox should start a "cult/camp" type collection, similar to MGM's Midnite Movies, for fare that doesn't really fall into the "classic" category.